the one who developed the sp1200 also did mpc2k

did you folks knew that the same guy who developed the sp1200 sequel
went to develope the mpc 2000 when the E-mu aborted the plans on
making an followup to the sp1200?

I read about that on the producersedgemagazine in an article about the sp1200..

http://www.producersedgemagazine.com/archives/vintageseriessp1200/vintageseriessp1200.htm

"...And so the story goes, one of the chief architects of the new SP project jumped ship and went on to produce another sampling drum machine you might have heard of: the AKAI MPC 2000..." - producersedgemagazine.

Word I actually own this mag, it's pretty decent even though you find fonts like Comic Sans Serif being used.

im pretty sceptical on this one.
some passing reference in a badly written article doesn't account for too much in my books

BenHoughton wrote:im pretty sceptical on this one.
some passing reference in a badly written article doesn't account for too much in my books

I second "BenHoughton" on this point.

http://www.producersedgemagazine.com/archives/vintageseriessp1200/vintageseriessp1200.htm wrote: --- And so the story goes, one of the chief architects of the new SP project jumped ship and went on to produce another sampling drum machine you might have heard of: the AKAI MPC 2000.

Vague ...

Very vague.

Here on the other hand are some actual facts:

MPC2000 development Team:

Product planning == Yuji Kagei.
Cosmetic design == Kazusato Kawanoguchi.
Electric design == Yasuyuki Hayashi & Hideyuki Oimatsu.
Mechanical design == Takeshi Sugiyama.
Software design == Akihiro Hayashi & Yoshihiro Ishikawa .
Sound design == Masayuki Hoshi and Studio Mix 335 Staff.

Any one ex EMU in this group above ?

Maybe

Not to my knowledge.

Rohan.